Some of my favorites are Green Street Hooligans, Field of Dreams, Goal!, Happy Gilmore, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Remember the Titans, Space Jam, Talladega Nights, The Waterboy, and Angels in the Outfield.
I acknowledged that the movies exist (you forgot "The Greatest Game ever Played", or the recently made "The Long Game")... just didn't want to give golf any respect.
If it weren't for the slave violence thing, Gladiator and Ben Hur are great movies. It was considered a sport in context but probably not viewed as such today. Hidalgo is also a great movie about long distance horse racing. Another car race movie with Matt Damon and Christain Bale was Ford vs Ferrari
The Bruce Lee story with Jason Lee playing Bruce is a great movie but man there are a ton of Kung Fu movies to list. Karate Kid for one
The Longest Yard from 1974 the remake with Sandler was too goofy, the original was a lot better movie.
anyone say the Replacements yet? yes it was campy as hell, but it's still fun to watch, and the cheerleaders are HOT
North Dallas Forty is a great football movie from the late 70's. It's arguably Nick Nolte's best movie alongside "Three Fugitives" (the 14% Rotten Tomatoes rating is too high. I'd give it 1%. It has opening credits and end credits, proving Three Fugitives is a completed movie)
the original Tron. That was the ultra cool stuff with the disks & the bikes & using the frisbee to drink glowing milk. Granted video games are not a "sport", but technically they were sports video games in that movie. the remake of Tron ?? I'd rather watch the Blazers lose a bunch of games, then whatever that newer Tron was set out to accomplish.
For different reasons..... Secretariat is a good move about one of the most amazing 'athletes' to ever grace a sporting even. What happened in the final leg of the Triple Crown was one of the most amazing spectacles in sport. Brian's Song was incredible in it's depth and emotion. Not what I expected because I didn't know the story. Damn, if that doesn't get a lump in your throat of a true life football player, I'm not sure what will. Dodgeball is just hilarious and I can put that on in the background over and over again.
underrated individual sports movies Quicksilver, Kevin Bacon on a 10 speed running from an evil stock broking militia. Gleaming the Cube, Christian Slater using skateboarding skills to stop illegal weapons shipments by Vietnamese gangsters.
